Corset



Nov. 20,1923. 1,474,892

L. A. CIRILLQ CORSET Filed Sept. 18, 1919- 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Nov. 20 i923. 11,474,892

L. A. CIRILLO CORSET Filed Sept. 18, 1919 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 29, 1923.

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Application filed September 18, 1919. Serial No. 324,374.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lonnrn ASTARITA CIRILLO, a citizen of the United States, and

a resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Corset, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide means for supporting the weight of the abdomen from the back of the corset and above the waistline thereof; to provide means for accommodating the support to the desired lift or strain; to simplify the arrangement of the supporting member for enabling the wearer to adjust the support and corset readily; and to provide a corset of the straight front character with a support for the lower wall of the abdomen.

Drmm'ngs.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a corset constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the back of said corset.

Figure 3 is a side view showing the side of the corset, a port-ion thereof being cut away to display the supporter.

Figure 4 is a developed view of the supporter and parts associated therewith, the same being disposed in flattened relation.

Descwlp Zion.

The present invention is primarily an improvement upon the construction disclosed in a patent which was granted to me by the United States under date of May 15, 1917, which patent bears the Number 1,226,308, to which patent cross reference is here made. In the patent referred to an abdominal supporter is shown, the lateral edges of which are sewed to the body of the corset with which it is associated, at the median lines of the side members of the corset. The front edges are fastened with the usual corset fasteners.

The present invention is more particularly adapted for persons of slenderer build than those for which the corset having the abdominal supporter, and disclosed in the above mentioned patent, was designed. Also to provide means which are more quickly adapted to the form and which do not re quire independent fastenings.

As seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings, a pad 9 is attached to the corset body and at one of the fastening edges thereof, by means of a stitched seam 10. The pad 9 is constructed of any suitable elastic material and is provided at the median line with a stiffener 11. Adjacent to the stiffener 11 are auxiliary stiffeners 12, laterally disposed with reference to the stiffener 11. The stiifeners 11 and 12 assist in maintaining the shape of the pad 9 and in preventing the same from riding upon the person of the wearer.

Attached to the pad 9 are short straps 13 and 14. The strap 14 is secured to the lower edge portion of the pad 9 and extends longitudinally thereof on a curved line and has its free end portions provided with buckles 15 which are spaced inwardly of the ends of the pad. The upper straps 13 extend from the outer stiffeners 12, of the pad 9, and pass over the ends of the strap 14 and beyond the buckles 15 carried by the latter, and, in turn, have their free ends provided with buckles 15', which are positioned closer to the ends of the pad than are the buckles 15.

The straps 13 and 14 are designed to en gage the strap-ends 16. As best seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the strap-ends 16 are connected with lacing strings 17, which are employed for fitting the upper portion of the corset to the figure. By this means it will be observed, the strain which is imparted to the pad 9 by means of the straps 16 is supported on the corset adjacent the shoulder-blades of the wearer. In this manner the strain of supporting the abdomen is re moved from the region of the small of the back and of the kidneys of the wearer.

As seen in Figures 1, 3 and 4, the straps 16 are brought forwardly and downwardly from in rear of the corset, and have their free ends first engaged with the buckles 15', of the upper straps 13, and then with the buckles 15, of the lower strap 14, with the result that the pad 9 will be drawn into close engagement with the abdomen generally, and the lower edge portion thereof inwardly and upwardly in a manner to firmly support the lower portion of the abdomen.

It will be noted that the stitching 10 secures the pad 9 to one side of the beak 18 with which the corset is provided. The beak 18 as shown best in Fig. 1 of the drawings is separated from the skirt 19 to form openings 20 for the passage of the straps 16.

By securing the pad in this manner, the same is prevented from riding upon the body'of the person and from becoming displaced, while the lifting strain imparted to the pad by the straps 16 serves to support the weight of the abdomen and at the lower region thereof, in a manner beneficial to the wearer of the corset. This also serves to prevent any displacement of adipose tissue, if there be any in this region,,thus, correcting a fault to which most of the so-called straight-front corsets are subject.

Claims.

1. In combination with a front opening corset having a pendent beak at the front thereof, a pad extending transversely of the beak and secured to the under face thereof at one edge of the front opening of the corset with its opposite ends extendingbeyond the opposite side edgesof the beak, a strap extending along the; lower edge portion of said pad, buckles secured onrthe opposite free ends of saidstrap and spaced inwardly of the ends of said pad,--'straps' extending longitudinally of said pad-above the first mentioned strap andi having their outer free ends extendingi'beyond the free ends ofthe latter, buckles carried by the "free ends of said last mentionedstraps and positioned closer-to the endsof the pad-than said first mentioned buckles; and} straps extending from the rear portion of the corset, which when in use, are adapted to be brought forwardly and downwardly at opposite sides of the latter and to have their free ends en gagcd first in the said last mentioned buckles and then in said first mentioned buckles, whereby the pad is drawn substantially taut transversely of the abdomen of the wearer 40 and the lower portion thereof in an upward direction to lift and support the lower portion of the abdomen.

2. The combination with a front opening corset, of a pad extending transversely of the lower end portion of the front of the corset with the latter positioned exteriorly thereof and the opposite end portions of the pad exposed, upper and lower sets of fasteners carried by the exposed ends of said pad with the upper of the fasteners positioned nearer to the end edges of'the latter than the lower of the fasteners, and straps extending from the rear-portion of the corset and, when in use, are adapted to be trained-forwardly and ing to draw the pad upwardly and trans- Versely of the abdomen of thewearer in a manner to compress and uplift the abdomen.

LOB-ETA ASTABITA GIRILLO. 

